<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear Subscribers,<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This may well be the most <i>useless </i>guide ever, since I suspect most of you — even if you haven’t already voted — are <i>decided</i> and<i> </i>will be unmoved by the content of this guide! Nonetheless, I hope you’ll, at least, find the <b>info </b>useful in discussing with others. Also, you can look over the endorsements listing. </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>In this year’s guide (attached), I’ve also included <i>subscribe </i>and <i>unsubscribe </i>info.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Thank you to all of you who sent notes me of acknowledgement and/or appreciation. (And I expect that the 2026 ballot will be <i>chock full </i>of propositions!)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>If anyone has questions or important corrections, feel free to email (or phone) me; I routinely check my spam and junk folders, so just be sure to have a clear subject line.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Since many of us are <i>so stressed </i>these days, I also attach a pic of (for occasional reference) the <i>role model </i>of my cat.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Yours, Darien</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div></div></body></html>